“Yoga is undoubtedly the best app that everyone must download in their life.” -Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Just like a regular app streamlines productivity and efficiency, Daily Yoga reduces stress, makes you feel happier and sleep better. You will agree that these elements are a must for working efficiently at home and at work.
1. Maintains physical health
Research studies state that yoga has an effect on general well-being. Yoga lowers the serum glucose and serum cholesterol level to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. It increases HDL ‘good’ cholesterol, lowering the risk of heart disease and stroke. So, practicing yoga regularly can keep many ailments away.
2. Manages common disorders
Studies show that people with rheumatoid arthritis who practiced yoga every day for over three months had greater handgrip strength compared with those who did not.
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3. Improves cardio-respiratory efficiency
Yoga involves isometric contraction, thereby decreasing the discomfort of breath-holding. During yoga practice, you can consistently and consciously override the stimuli to respiratory centers, thereby acquiring control over respiration. This benefits emotional and psychological well-being in healthy people. You reap such respiratory benefits while practising yoga daily.
4. Balances the autonomic nervous system
Yoga is a powerful antidote to stress as it down-regulates the sympathetic nervous system and up-regulates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for rest, digestion, energy conservation, and reduces the heart rate. Make yoga a vital part of your daily routine to stay away from stress.
5. Manages body weight
“How long should I practice yoga daily to manage my weight?” is maybe your question. Practice intense, active yoga asanas for at least five to six days a week, initially for thirty minutes. Gradually, you may extend it for an hour. Surya Namaskar at a fast pace is an effective cardio workout for losing weight. Balance your practice with some gentle stretching on other days.
6. Strengthens body
I used to wonder why holding a pose was essential until it was explained to me by my Sri Sri Yoga teacher. Yoga increases strength, balance and flexibility with slow movements, deep breathing and holding the asanas. Your holding ability strengthens your body to its fullest potential. Practice yoga daily to realize that potential.
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7. Brings focus to mind
Especially for students who practice yoga, study becomes an effortless process for them. Your memory becomes sharper and you remember things easily. Your intellect too begins to shine.
8. Uplifts the overall energy
As yoga asanas involve body movements and stretches, they trigger the energy flow and reduce or remove blockages to that flow. In the process, toxins are released from the system to rejuvenate and energize the body. Homemakers practice yoga daily to avoid boredom and get involved in daily chores with energy.
9. Improves mental health
Today, mental health is the biggest challenge. Negative emotions like depression, anxiety and fear are taking over human life. Yoga is a boon to humanity. It helps us sail over tough times.
10. Enhances relationships
Yoga practitioners experience peace of mind after the daily yoga sessions. Thus, promoting self-observance and understanding over defensiveness. Your acceptance level rises, leading to belongingness in relationships.
11. Keeps emotions stable
Yoga balances the right and left sides of the brain, resulting in more emotional stability. It brings suppressed emotions to the surface and releases them from the body.
12. Sparks intuitive ability
Every student, professional, businessman, entrepreneur, doctor, player, stockbroker, artist and scientist needs intuition. Meditation develops intuition. Yoga prepares you for deep meditation. It aids in creating space in your mind with physical movements and breath. This space is devoid of stress, and intuitive thoughts spark up easily.
13. Blossoms human values
Yoga is the best tool to blossom in human values. It brings self-control, self-discipline and self-awareness to your daily life when you practice regularly. It rids you of your stress, physical fatigue and emotional turbulence, brings mental clarity, helps develop compassion and manifests other positive traits.
14. Improves flexibility
“Why do we need flexibility?” was my question to the Sri Sri Yoga expert. She explained that with flexibility comes fewer injuries, less body pain, improved posture and balance, greater strength, and above all, a positive bent of mind. A yoga practitioner gets it all.
15. Induces better sleep
Sleep can be your way to success through yoga practices. Yoga poses include a lot of stretching and relaxing of muscles, exerting you both physically and mentally. This leads to fewer sleep disturbances and better sleep efficiency. A positive impact on sleep is sustained with long-term yoga practice. Therefore, it calls for a daily yoga practice.
16. Fun time for children
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Depicted in asanas by a child-yoga-enthusiast.
Daily yoga becomes a fun time for children. Through playful ways, they get interested in practicing asanas. Alphabet and animal asanas are not only amusing but also beneficial to their body and mind.
Conclusion
Remember, these benefits come with daily yoga practice. Once in a blue moon yoga practice will not reap these many benefits.
Yoga is beneficial whether you are young, old, healthy, recovering from an ailment, or searching for a therapeutic option to help you in chronic conditions. So, without any prejudice, you must practice yoga. Whatever brand of mobile it is, it doesn’t interfere with your faith. In a similar vein, yoga doesn’t interfere with any belief system. It makes your faith stronger.
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Reference link
Scientific benefits of yoga: A review.
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Based on inputs by Deepti Thapa, Faculty, Sri Sri Yoga
Written by: Pratibha Sharma
